Word choice: plug/unplug appliances in UK, Australia, etc?

[8bitAG (Strident)]

@Warrigal

Come to think of it, I know what an electric kettle is, but nowadays we tend to use electric jugs. I think the only difference is the shape. Kettles are sort of fat and squat, whereas jugs are taller and slimmer.

Yeah, we still call them kettles; despite the jug shape; although they are often sold as “jug kettles”.

[vivdunstan]

I’d call it a power socket, usually using both words. As a UK person albeit Scottish.

[rileypb (Phil Riley)]

@Warrigal

the poms

Good lord. What the heck is a “pom”? Why can’t you speak English like the rest of us?

[Warrigal (Garry Francis)]

So, we need to PLUG POWER PLUG IN POWER SOCKET. This sounds like a variation of PLANT POT PLANT IN PLANT POT.

[rileypb (Phil Riley)]

@DeusIrae

Electrical outlet too, at least in the northeast and California.

Yeah, of course. I forgot that. I don’t think that’s regional, though.

[rileypb (Phil Riley)]

@Warrigal

PLANT POT PLANT IN PLANT POT

TIL from Things that Happened in Houghtonbridge: Outside of the US, a “pot plant” is not marijuana.

[bg]

@DeusIrae

Electrical outlet too

Yes, or just “outlet” or maybe “power outlet.”

@8bitAG

the impression we’ve been given over here is that electric kettles were rare.

I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen an electric kettle. Mostly I see coffee makers. And the stovetop type of kettle.

[dee_cooke]

@rileypb

TIL from Things that Happened in Houghtonbridge: Outside of the US, a “pot plant” is not marijuana.

A couple of testers did flag that up and I considered changing it to the clunky-sounding ‘pot with a plant in it’ (as a British character wouldn’t think of it as a ‘potted plant’!) but eventually decided to leave it. One of those bits of scenery that I might avoid in future games!

[rileypb (Phil Riley)]

I didn’t even notice at first until Garry’s comment. I just thought it was a charming Britishism, like “in hospital”.

[8bitAG (Strident)]

@dee_cooke

(as a British character wouldn’t think of it as a ‘potted plant’!)

I’m not sure that’s completely true, but that probably just says something about the amount of regional variation we have with language in the UK. You’ll find plenty of British uses of “potted plant” for a pot plant… or rather a plant potted in a pot. Usually a plant suitable for pots.

The aforementioned PLANT POT PLANT IN PLANT POT has historical significance in the UK text adventure scene anyway.

[dee_cooke]

I most definitely never came across ‘potted plant’ until reading it in US English! Maybe I just don’t do enough gardening

[Draconis (Daniel Stelzer)]

You’d be surprised how many places around here have rules against using electric kettles! Apparently they’re considered a fire risk.

[HanonO (Hanon Ondricek)]

@JTN

I’d use plug in / unplug.

>INPLUG CORD

[jkj_yuio]

@8bitAG

The aforementioned PLANT POT PLANT IN PLANT POT has historical significance in the UK text adventure scene anyway.

The “pot plant” was actually also a pot plant.

[Marbles (Bruce Mardle)]

You can plug a leak, so (in principle) you could plug a kettle, but plugging a leak from a kettle sounds rather dangerous!
Prepositions will get you every time
In the UK we go out of the door, but, I must admit, I sometimes say “out the door”… probably because Infocom manuals say “even when our product is out the door…”! For the times, they are a-changing People here (including my girlfriend [sigh]) have started saying “I’m going to lay down”. Whatever next?!